A mirror mirroring a mirror
Please, Oh please, publish me in your collection of self-referential sentences!
I enjoy acronyms. Recursive Acronyms Crablike RACRECIR Especially Create Infinite Regress
I wish my wish would not be granted!
[...] provability is a weaker notion than truth
A term meant to convey a person's inability to make sense of the numbers that run their lives.
This idea that there is generality in the specific is of far-reaching importance.
Some of us, perhaps all of us, believe that it is legitimate to kill enemy soldiers in a war, as if war were a special circumstance that shrinks the sizes of enemy souls.
To paraphrase Descartes again: I think; therefore I have no access to the level where I sum.
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law
It is curious, how one often mistrusts one’s own opinions if they are stated by someone else.
I would like to understand things better, but I don’t want to understand them perfectly.
Through many types of abstraction and analogy-making and inductive reasoning, and through many long and tortuous chains of citations of all sorts of authorities (which constitute an indispensable pill...
Saying that studying the brain is limited to the study of physical entities would be like saying that literary criticism must focus on paper and bookbinding, ink and its chemistry, page sizes and marg...
It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even eerier type of order.
We don't want to focus on the trees (or their leaves) at the expense of the forest.
Concepts in the brains of humans acquired the property that they could get rolled together with other concepts into larger packets, and any such larger packet could then become a new concept in its ow...
We have a very hard time seeing our cognitive activity because it is the medium in which we swim. The attempt to put our finger on what counts in any given situation leads us at times to making connec...
Meaning lies as muchin the mind of the readeras in the Haiku.
What happens on the lower level is responsible for what happens on the higher level, it is nonetheless irrelevant to the higher level. The higher level can blithely ignore the processes on the lower l...